Literacy Lesson Bank

Common Core-aligned lessons for K-2 picture, informational, and chapter books. Lessons include text-dependent questions, Language exploration, Speaking and Listening activities, Writing activities, and creative performance tasks.  

Please click on the title of the book to access the lesson.  

14 Cows for America grade 1 

A Butterfly is Patient grade 2

A Drop ARound the World grade 2

A Drop of Water grade 2

A Seed is Sleepy grade 2 

All Pigs are Beautiful grade 1 

Amelia Bedelia grade 1

Are Trees Alive? grade 1

Around One Cactus grade 1

Around One Cactus 2 grade 1

Bats grade K

One Hen grade 1

Our Solar System grade 2

Owen and Mzee grade 2 

Owl Moon grade 1

Rocks in His Head grade 2

Snow is Falling grade K

Snowboard Twist grade 2

Snowflake Bentley grade 2

Spider and the Fly grade 1

Spiders grade 1

Stellaluna grade K

The Big Snow grade 1

The Cloud Book grade 2

The Great Kapok Tree grade 1 or 2

The Keeping Quilt grade 2

The Moon grade 1

The Moon Book grade 1

The Raft grade 1

The Rough Faced Girl grade 2 

The Seashore Book grade 1

The Secret Life of a Snowflake grade 2

The Snowy Day grade K

The Storm Book grade 2

The Stranger grade 2

The Tortilla Factory grade K

The Year at Maple Hill Farm grade K

Thunder Boomer grade K

Thunder Cake grade K

Thunderstorms grade 1

Tiki Tiki Tembo grade 1

Too Many Tamales grade K

Train to Somewhere grade 1

Turtle Watch grade 1

Two Bad Ants grade 1

Two Bobbies grade 1

Wangari's Trees of Peace grade K

Ways People Live grade 1

Weather Words and What They Mean grade 2

When the Root Children Wake Up grade K

When the World Was Young: Emu and Eagle’s Great Quarrel  grade 2

Where Do I Live grade 1

Who's Buying, Who's Selling? grade 1 

Wild Weather grade 1

Zinnias Flower Garden grade K

Cactus Hotel grade K

Charlotte's Web grade 1

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs grade 1

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 grade 2

Come On, Rain grade 1

Commotion in the Ocean grade K

Dear Children of the Earth grade 1

Dear Juno grade 2

Desert Giant grade 2

Eat Like a Bear grade 1

Elephants Can Paint Too  grade K

Feel the Wind grade K

For You Are a Kenyan Child grade K

Freddy the Frogcaster grade 1

Frogs 2 grade 1

From Cow to Ice Cream grade 1 

From Seed to Plant grade K 

Gilberto and the Wind grade K

Hello Ocean grade K

Here is the African Savanna grade K

How My Family Lives in America grade K

How to Bicycle to the Moon grade 1

If You Could Go to Anarctica grade K 

Jack Rabbit grade 1

Jaime's Journey grade K

Knots on a Counting Rope grade 2

Livingstone Mouse grade 1

Mama Panya's Pancakes grade K

Moon Rooster grade 1

Mr. Popper's Penguins grade 2 

My Great Aunt Arizona grade 1

My Side of the Mountain grade 2

My Side of the Mountain 2 grade 2

National Geographic Bird Guide to North America grade 1 

Of Thee I Sing grade 1

On the Same Day in March grade K